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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Designer dog mutts = unethical. [b]Ethical breeders follow breed standards [/b]and don’t sell mutts. [/quote]

You do realize this is just a nice way of saying inbreeding, right? 
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I don’t think you know what inbreeding means. Breeding two same-breed purebreds isn’t inbreeding. Inbreeding is breeding two dogs who are very closely related, as in breeding two dogs who are siblings or are the equivalent of father and daughter or uncle and niece or two first cousins, something like that.

You end up with inbreeding when you have only one or two male poodles who repeatedly sire litters with every female dog in several Amish households so they can produce every kind of doodle imaginable, and then they breed the resulting offspring together.[/quote]

I know what inbreeding means and the fact is that breeding for ‘breed standards’ is essentially inbreeding, whether directly intentional or not, eg breeding direct offspring. Look into the genetic lines of every single AKC breed- they are all ultimately highly inbred. The NYT posted a survey recently and it was eye opening.

I’m not a doodle owner but I see nothing particularly wrong with breeding a poodle and another type of dog. It’s probably healthier than pure-breeding in most cases. [/quote]

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